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This is a guide to install Fritzing from source on Arch Linux. Yes, there is a package in the AUR; however, I need to compile the eagle2fritzing tool and that requires a copy of the source code for Fritzing.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  sudo pacman -Syu
  

Install Fritzing¶

• Install a few build dependencies:
  

  sudo pacman -S qtcreator jdk8-openjdk libgit2 python2 qt5-serialport qt5-svg shared-mime-info boost
  

• Make a working directory and switch to it:
  

  mkdir -p ~/git/fritzing && cd ~/git/fritzing
  

• Clone the Fritzing app repo from GitHub:
  

  git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app.git
  

• Clone the Fritzing parts repo from GitHub inside the fritzing-app:
  

  cd fritzing-app
  git clone https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-parts.git parts
  cd ..
  

• Compile fritzing:
  

  cd fritzing-app
  qmake
  make
  

  • And install
    

    sudo make install
    

• Package fritzing:
  

  cd ..
  fritzing-app/tools/linux_release_script/release.sh 0.9.3b
  

eagle2fritzing¶

• Switch to the fritzing working directory:
  

  cd ~/git/fritzing
  

• Clone the eagle2fritzing repo from GitHub:
  

  git clone https://github.com/fritzing/eagle2fritzing.git
  

• Switch to the lbr2svg directory:
  

  cd eagle2fritzing/lbr2svg
  

  • Compile the lbr2svg tool:
    

    qmake
    make
    

  • Run the tool:
    

    ./lbr2svg -w ~/.eagle/lbr -p ~/git/fritzing/fritzing-app/parts -c user
    

• Switch to the brd2svg directory:
  

  cd ../brd2svg
  

  • Compile the brd2svg tool:
    

    qmake
    make
    

  • Run the tool:
    

    ./brd2svg
    

Resources¶

• https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/1.-Building-Fritzing
• https://github.com/fritzing/eagle2fritzing
• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fritzing/